Language:
English
Pages:
15 pages :
,
typescript (photocopies).
Year of publication:
1952
Keywords:
Sternberg family.
;
Ullmann, Fanny.
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United States.
;
Agricultural colonies
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Education, Primary.
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Education, Higher.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Argentina Emigration and immigration 1930s.
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Buenos Aires (Argentina)
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Colonia Avigdor (Argentina)
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Dieburg (Germany)
;
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1930s.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written in Paramus, New Jersey in 1952. Description of the author's childhood in a small town near Frankfurt am Main, where his parents Max and Ida Sternberg (née Fuchs) had a textile business. Recollections of World War One and the family's move to his maternal grandparents in Dieburg, Hessen. His grandfather was a founder of the local "Turn-Verein" and an influential member of the Jewish congregation. During the war Fred was enrolled in a primary school. At age 14 he was sent to live with his grandparents again to attend to Gymnasium in Dieburg, which was part of a local convent. After graduation in 1928 he started an apprenticeship in a furnishing store in Frankfurt am Main and attended evening lectures at the Goethe University at the same time. Rising Nazism and decision to leave the country. Training at a agricultural farm in Fuertenwalde to prepare for his emigration to the Baron de Hirsch settlement in Argentina. Fred Sternberg left Germany in August 1936 for Buenos Aires. Work and living conditions at the "Colonia Avigdor". Move back to Buenos Aires. After the release of his father from Buchenwald, his family received their visas for the United States. Reuniting with his family in New York in 1941. In 1942 Fred joined the US Army and was sent to the Pacific and the Philippines. Marriage to Fanny Ullmann in November 1945; they settled in Paramus, New Jersey.
Note:
English
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